Two days ago we had a Linux day. A
nice event where innocent people bring their computers to
us, we install Linux on them, try to fix broken
configurations, and give lectures.

The people from Actcom sponoered lunch as
always, and the T-shirts for installers and gurus. The Bezeq
people came late and sponoered an ADSL line for one day. It
was very nice of them, besides the fact they were 3 hours
late, and forgot to bring filters... so we had network only
5 hours after we started configurations ;). The people from
BeyondSecurity (Aviram Jenik's company) came and brought
installers (3) and some stuff. They also came a bit late ;).

The local people who worked on the day to be a
success are:

epsalon - Alon Altman,
who did a lot to make sure all matters, both technical and
administrative would function as expected.

EzAton - after configuring his server to perform as a
kickstart nfs server (we mainly installed RH 9.0 + updates),
and bringing lots of network things, he still went on and
installed, solved problems, etc.

Meir Maor - did a lot as installer, helped to carry the
heavy stuff around.

Shachar Rijndael (it's not the way he writes his name,
but in Hebrew is name is equivalent to the one used by the
Advanced Encryption Standard) - just like Meir - helped to
carry the heavy stuff, and installed a lot.

ladypine - arrived
after work, and helped to make sure things were running
smoothly (which as usual wasn't the case).

Adir - Besides a little lifting made more noise than
expected. He was in charge on few things, and most of them
were screwed up. This fact didn't caused him to understand
he did almost nothing, and to behave like the boss.

yours truly - as I was in Central America during the
summer, I wasn't one of the real organizers. However, I gave
the lecture 3 times, tried to make sure there will be a nice
music all around the event (almost succeeded in that for 9
hours). etc. I did also some heavy lifting.

Thanks are also due to Guy Keren (the ever lasting guru),
Nadav (the never ending installer), GuyT (the undercover
guru), Shlomi Loubaton, Amichi Rotman (I came, I saw, I
installed), Emil (I came, I saw, I lifted) and all those I
forgot.

Hopefully next time would be better ;)

btw, after the mess, I re-certified Alon as a
journeyer. He really deserves this status, after working
hard, and trying to communicate with Adir (usually without
success). I also certified shlomif (at last). Even though I
am not using his scripts, he still did a good job, and good
job is always entitled to recognition.